Challenge Exam Overview

What Is a Challenge Exam?

If you feel that your background, education, and experience have given you sufficient knowledge in a subject area, you may challenge certain courses. Earning course credit through Challenge Examinations is equivalent to passing a cumulative, end-of-the-term examination or a series of comparable exams. Examinations will vary depending on the type of course challenged. An instructor of the College recommended by the appropriate Academic Area Dean develops the examination. Each academic area selects which courses are available for challenge and may have academic area-specific screening procedures to determine a student’s eligibility to take the Challenge exam. Challenge exams are not available as an option if other proficiency examinations such as CLEP are available.

A Challenge Exam Cannot Be Taken for the Following Purposes

• To expunge a failure in a course at Northern Essex Community College or elsewhere.
• To attempt to raise a low grade in a course at Northern Essex Community College or elsewhere.
• To erase a previously obtained unsatisfactory score on any of the subject examinations.

Contact

testing@necc.mass.edu